The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-08

viii hear dripping down through the
ieaky roof and rolling over the rotten
stairs, the angel chant that shook Bethle-
hem: GLORY to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good will to men" Can
you tell me why Christian woman, 60
ing down among the haunts of iniquity
on Christian GRAND, never meets with
any indignity? | stood in the chapel of
Helen Chalmers, the daughter of the
celebrated DR.. Chalmers, in the most
abandoned part Of the city Of Edinburgh;
and l said to her as looked around upon
the fearful surroundings Of that place:
''Do you come here nights to hold SER
vice?' ''Oh, yes" she said 'tCan it be
possible that you never meet with an in
suit while performing this Christian
errand?" "Never," she said, s'never.' -
That young woman who has her father by
her side walking down the street, an
armed police at each corner, is not SO
well defended as that Christian woman
who goes forth on gospel work into the
haunts Of iniquity, carrying the Bibles
and bread. God, with the red right arm
Of his wrath omnipotent, would tear to
pieces any one who should offer indig-
nifty. He would snite him with light
nings and drown him with floods, and
swallow him with earthquakes, and
damn him with eternal indignations.
Some one said: II dislike very much to
see that Christian woman teaching those
bad boys in the mission school.
am afraid to have her instruct Them
''So,'' said another man, 81 am afraid,
too" Said the first: Il am afraid
they viii use vile language before they
leave the place" "Ah,' said the other
man, Il am not afraid of that. What
| am afraid of is, that if any of those
boys should use a bad word in that
presence the other boys would tear him
to pieces, and kill him on the spot.
That woman is the best sheltered who
is sheltered by the Lord God Almighty,
and you need never fear going anywhere
where God tells you to go.
1t seems as if the Lord had ordained
woman for an especial work in the solici-
tation of charities. Backed up by barrels
in which there is no -four, and by stoves
in which there is no fire, and by ward
robes in which there are no clothes, a
woman is irresistible; passing on her
errand God says to her: ''You go into
that bank, or store, or shop, and get the
money" She goes in and gets it. The
man is hard listed, but she gets it. She
could not hep but get it, 1t is decreed
from eternity she should get it. No need
Of your turning your back and pretend
| ing you don t hear; you do hear. There
is no need Of your saying you are begged
to death. There is no need of your vast
ing your time, and you might as well
submit first as last You had better right
away take your check book, mark the
number of the check, fill up the blank,
sign your name and hand it to her.
There is no need OF wasting time. Those
poor children on the back street have
been hungry long enough. That sick
man must have some farina. That con-
7umptive must have something to ease
his cough. meet this delegate of a re-
lief society coming out of the store of
such hard listed man, and say: "Did
YOU get the money!" "Of course" she
says, 81 got the money; that's what l
went for. The Lord told me to go in and
get it, and he never sends me on fools
errand."
Again; have to tell you that it is a
woman's specific right to comfort under
the stress of dire disaster, She is called
the weaker vessel; but all profane as well
as sacred history sttests that when the
crisis comes she is better prepared than
man to meet the emergency. How often
you have seen a woman who seemed to
be a disciple of frivolity and Incidence,
| who. under one stroke of calamity
changed to heroine. Oh, what great
mistake those business men make who
never tell their business troubles to their
wivesi There comes some great loss to
their store, or some of their companions
in business play them sad trick, and
they carry the burden all alone. He is
asked in the household again and again:
What is the matter? but he believes it a
sort of Christian duty to keep all that
trouble within his own soul. Oh, your
first duty was to tell your wife all about
it. She, perhaps, might not have olsen
tangled your finances, or extended your
credit, but she would have helped you tC
bear misfortune. You have no right tc
carry on one shoulder that which is in
tended for two. There are business mer
here who know what I mean. There
came crisis In your affairs. You strug
gled bravely and long; but after a whilC
there came day when you said: 'I1ers
shall have to stop and you called ii
your partners, and you called in the mos
prominent men in your employ, and you
said: 1--WE have got to STOP" You lef
the store suddenly. You could hardly
make up your mind to pass through thC
street and over oA the ferry boat. Yor
felt everybody would be looking at you
and blaming you, and denouncing you
You hastened home. You told your wifi,
all about the affair. What did she say
Did she play the butterfly? Did she tall
about the silks, and the ribbons, and tht
fashions? No. She came up to the emer
gency. She quailed not under th
stroke. She helped you to begin to pial
right away. She offered to go out of til
comfortable house into a smaller one, AM
wear the old cloak another winter. Sh
! was one who understood your affair
, without blaming you. You looked upo
; what you thought was a thin, wea
womans arm holding you up; but Will
} you looked at that arm, there came int
the feeble muscles of it the strength c
: the eternal God No chiding. No fret
g: ! ting. No telling you about the beautitr
house of her father, from which yo
| brought her, ten, twenty, or thirty yeai
1 ago. You Baid "Well, this is tn
l happiest day of my life. | ann gla
e l have got from under my burden
t My wife don't care-I don't care.
e At the moment you were utterly e1
t hausted, God sent Deborah to meC
4 the host of the Amalekites and scatte
n them like chaff over the plain. The1
!: are sometimes women who sit readin
g sentimental novels, and who wish tn;
s they had some grand field in which
@ display their Christian powers. o, VIII;
a grand and glorious things they could &
/ if they only had an opportunity! N
o sister, you need not wait for any sue
IL time. A crisis viii come in your affair
There will be Thermopylae in your ow
It household where God will tell you
e stand. There are scores and hundreds
II households today where as much bravel
It and courage are demanded of woman
IS was exhibited by Grace Darling. or Mar
n Antoinette, or Joan of Arc.
" Again: / remark, it is woman's rigl
T. to bring to us the kingdom of heaven.
Id is easier for a woman to be a Christia
to than for man. Why? You say she
of weaker. No. Her heart is more +
TO sponsiye to the pleadings of divine Low